Senior Founding Engineer

About Agentive

Agentive lives at the cutting edge of AI, applied to financial audit problems across a global customer base.

As a Founding Engineer, you will bring to the table the ability to take a raw problem from customers or the team, judiciously evaluate tradeoffs, chart a balanced technical course, and turn that dream into a reality that excites. We’re looking for a true technical visionary as well as a well-rounded outcome owner and high-stakes technical decision maker.

We are intentionally looking across a broad scope of experience, with an emphasis on competence over pure time-in-seat. If the emphasized skills below are a good fit, apply!

Current professional experience will be considered in compensation and role responsibilities.

• Demonstrable, expert understanding of foundational computer science principles – data structures, algorithmic complexity, data modeling, etc.
• Demonstrable, expert understanding of software engineering principles and the ability to make long-term technical bets
• Humility and commitment to giving and receiving honest feedback
• AI capabilities move quickly – ability to handle changing priorities and technical goals
• High ownership and excitement to push the boundaries of what’s considered “possible”

• React experience at an expert level, or demonstrable equivalent rigorous understanding of reactive programming patterns and lifecycle management
• Elixir/Rust experience, or demonstrable equivalent rigorous understanding of immutable memory patterns, algorithms, limitations, etc.
• Design experience, or demonstrable equivalent expertise designing aesthetically beautiful customer experiences that make complex features simple to understand and use

Examples of complex problems you’ll tackle include:

• Efficient architectures for processing and rendering high volumes of documents
• Translating complex financial review processes into clean, robust UI designs and frameworks
• Building and iterating on agents that satisfy the highest bar of accuracy, precision, and reliability

• Elixir/Phoenix backend
• Next.js frontend (Type Script/React) with CDN and Tan Stack Query
• Postgre
  
  SQL database with pgvector for vector search and RAG
• Agents written through both custom frameworks and AI SDK by Vercel

• The pace is exciting and can be demanding at times to meet customer needs, so we offer flexible hours to help you maximize important values outside of work
• Cutting-edge, AI-forward development culture:
  Claude Max plan or equivalent, agentic code reviews, bug fixers, and codebase crawlers orchestrated through Git Hub Actions
• Working on technically challenging, novel problems
• High autonomy, rewarding environment – see your features in the hands of users sometimes within the same day
• Being part of a lean but fast-growing, winning team